---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to: expanding graduate medical training grants and making an appropriation. (FE)"
description: "Relating to: expanding graduate medical training grants and making an appropriation. (FE)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wi"
legislature: "Wisconsin Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 643"
citation: "Wisconsin SB 643 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpenter", "Cowles", "Felzkowski", "Marklein", "Pfaff", "Quinn", "Spreitzer", "Tomczyk"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 30
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-11-07T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e4512cc-bb82-48d2-acc2-721e58f8a202"
source_url: "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb643"
source_hash: "0915df58e60383011bb747c4299240952fd2e2d388bdea609d77967195937bc5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wi"]
---

# Wisconsin SB 643 (2023) — Relating to: expanding graduate medical training grants and making an appropriation. (FE)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2023/REG/SB643)

## Votes

- CONCURRENCE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Report passage recommended by Committee on Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carpenter — primary (person)
- Cowles — primary (person)
- Felzkowski — primary (person)
- Marklein — primary (person)
- Pfaff — primary (person)
- Quinn — primary (person)
- Spreitzer — primary (person)
- Tomczyk — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Introduced by Senators Quinn, Tomczyk, Carpenter, Cowles, Felzkowski, Marklein, Pfaff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Novak, Snyder, Bare, Armstrong, Billings, C. Anderson, Brandtjen, Donovan, Doyle, Edming, Hurd, Joers, Kitchens, Kurtz, McGuire, Moses, Mursau, O'Connor, Ohnstad, Oldenburg, Ortiz-Velez, Rozar, Schmidt, Schutt and Tranel `introduction`
- **2023-11-07T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to Committee on Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-11-08T06:00:00+00:00** LRB correction
- **2023-11-21T06:00:00+00:00** Fiscal estimate received `receipt`
- **2023-12-05T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Magnafici added as a cosponsor
- **2023-12-06T06:00:00+00:00** Public hearing held
- **2023-12-20T06:00:00+00:00** Executive action taken
- **2023-12-20T06:00:00+00:00** Report passage recommended by Committee on Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-12-20T06:00:00+00:00** Available for scheduling
- **2024-01-12T06:00:00+00:00** Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and passed, Ayes 31, Noes 1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-01-16T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Read first time and referred to committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20T06:00:00+00:00** Made a special order of business at 10:23 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a second time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered to a third reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Rules suspended
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 97, Noes 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Ordered immediately messaged
- **2024-02-22T06:00:00+00:00** Received from Assembly concurred in `receipt`
- **2024-02-29T06:00:00+00:00** Report correctly enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Representative Shankland added as a cosponsor
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Report approved by the Governor on 3-15-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 185 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Published 3-23-2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e4512cc-bb82-48d2-acc2-721e58f8a202`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).